waste

every living thing on earth creates waste every single day, simply by virtue of existing. it’s built into the design of things… if you must eat, you must expel waste. and yet… for billions of years life existed without building up any noticeable accumulation of waste.

how was that possible?

well, let me tell you how that works…. it’s simple really…..

nature recycles its’ own waste. and, more importantly, up until the last 1,000 years or so, only recyclable natural materials were used for, well, everything. it wasn’t until humanity discovered nature’s naturally occurring chemicals, along with how to take them apart and reassemble them in new, quite unnatural, ways that the problems began.

you see, while nature can still recycle these odd creations, it takes time to unwind the monstrous combinations and put them back into a natural state conducive to reuse. and, by taking a quick glance at earth, we can see that the extreme amount of time it takes allows for an overwhelming amount of accumulation in every sphere, from vast mountains of garbage dotting the landscape, to undersea vortexes filled to the brim with plastic items, to the air that is visibly “dirty” from the chemical molecules suspended within it….

and don’t get me started about the mess accumulating in space around your planet!! it’s embarrassing….

earth is the junkyard of the solar system, that one neighbor with all the broken down cars and appliances in the front yard, the one who dumps their used motor oil in the drainage ditch behind the mall… you know the one…..

and it’s sad because just one species on earth is junking things up for everybody, including themselves, and they just don’t seem to care.

this influx of vast amounts of unnatural, not easily degradable materials is solely the responsibility of humanity. no other species would even think to destroy their home for the sake of pleasure, laziness, greed, comfort or for any other reason.

discovering how to tear apart and corrupt nature’s basic building blocks is not a “success”….

it’s more akin to giving a 3 year old an explosive chemistry set… they might create something good, something new and exciting and useful, but the odds are greater that they’re going to destroy a lot more in the process, especially when you consider that this dangerous new toy didn’t come with any instruction booklet or obvious warning labels, simply because it wasn’t meant to ever be a toy for humanity to play with at all.

basically, the perverted materials being created by humanity are piling up because nature has no idea of what they are, where they came from, why they’re here or how to get rid of them.

so let’s try to answer those questions, shall we?

we’ve already established what they are and where they came from – unnatural chemical combinations, turned into material objects by humanity, who, rather than working with nature, chose to take her abundance and twist it into a weapon to be used against everyone.

now, as to why they’re here, well, there’s no easy answer to that. humans love to create new things, for lots of reasons…

first, for some, is weaponry, while others place an importance on health and life expectancy. over time, technology brought desires for comfort and convenience and ease. as those goals were reached, pleasure became a driving force behind newer, never before seen materials and the products made from them….

but agriculture also plays a big role in technology’s growth, particularly as the human population continues to explode (7 billion people to feed now, 10 billion predicted worldwide within 30 years or so), with the saddest part of that being how half of that human population wastes twice as much food as the other half could ever use, even if they were ever given full access to it….

(shakes head, heavy sigh)

which brings us to how to get rid of them….

and you’re not gonna like it.

humanity has no choice but to rein in its’ collective consumption and stop producing ALL unnecessary unnatural products. what’s here is here, it’s not going anywhere, not until nature can find a way to break it down and recycle it for something good. in the meantime, humanity can use its’ technology to repurpose those items that already exist in order to fulfill their need for tinkering and “improvement”.

and, yes, humanity needs to lower its’ comfort bar just a bit, or raise it, depending on where they live….

in truth, the point of balance is between the two worlds… between those who still defecate in open fields and those who do their business on gold toilets….

every human should have their basic needs fulfilled in a healthy way – meaning well maintained toilets, contained and treated waste products, clean water, nutritious food, adequate shelter, a safe sleeping space….

but most other man-made materials and products are unnecessary, unnatural, toxically harmful abominations to nature whose very existence on earth needs to be questioned.

i mean, is that take out container, 6 pack ring or cell phone really worth taking a life for?

the rest of the world would like to know…